Senior Data Infra Engineer

Location: Mountain View, California, United States

Annual base pay: $175,000–$221,000 USD

Company

hirify.global is a content intelligence platform serving over 40 million monthly active users through personalized local news and information powered by AI, recommendation systems, and adtech.

What you will do

• Design and operate high-throughput Kafka pipelines carrying user events to the data warehouse and real-time analytics systems.
• Build and optimize Spark batch jobs processing billions of rows daily for content ingestion, engagement aggregation, and user-level feature computation.
• Own pipeline reliability, incremental backfills, data freshness and completeness SLOs, and cost per terabyte processed.
• Implement data quality checks, freshness monitoring, anomaly alerts, and observability for production pipelines.
• Design structured and unstructured data models and drive data infrastructure decisions across data science, application, and platform teams.
• Improve efficiency through query optimization, partitioning, resource scheduling, tiered storage, Airflow orchestration patterns, and reusable Spark libraries; mentor junior engineers.

Requirements

• 5+ years of data engineering experience, including at least 3 years owning production pipelines in distributed data environments.
• Strong hands-on experience with Spark and Kafka at scale, including production incident debugging.
• Experience with Hadoop, Presto/Trino, and Flink.
• Proficiency in Python and SQL.
• Cloud experience, preferably with AWS services including S3, EMR, Glue, and Redshift.
• BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent, with strong communication skills and experience driving infrastructure decisions across teams.

Nice to have

• Experience with Scala.

Culture & Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision coverage for employees and families, with 100% employee coverage.
• 401(k) plan with company matching.
• Paid time off and paid holidays.
• FSA, HSA, and commuter benefits programs.
• Team activity budget.
• Potential eligibility for a discretionary bonus and stock options.